Better than gold a poem on virtue and kindness
The piece extols a healthy body and clear conscience as superior to wealth. It praises sympathy, modest living, intellectual pursuits, and the comfort of a peaceful home as richer than gold, celebrating the moral duties of the poor man and the joy found in family and humane values.
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Crandem
Perni
Dayton
Ohio
Lawrence
Kansas
Baltimore
South
Ely
W. W. Wood
Confedersia Army
Mississipp
Emigra Iion
Brazil
Memoir of Turner Ashby No 2 large Confederate cavalry action
Details Turner Ashbys early command under Gen Johnston and Col Angel McDonald, his brothers death at Green Spring near Romney, and his rise to lead a mounted legion. Describes Ashbys bold raids, fame for bravery, his white horse, and the impact of his brothers death on his career and discipline in Hampshire and along the Potomac. Community notes on Fenian activity and related U.S. politics follow.
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Astibw
Karper’s Forey
Pointer Racke
Johnston
R. Welby Carter
John Q Winithes
Brock's Gap
Angel W. McDon Id
Winchester
Virginia
Border Service
Ashby
Winfield
S. W. Myers
Mason
Shands
Jordan
Miller
Harper
Sheetz
Romney
Hampshire County
Warper
Turner Ashby
Hampshire
A. P. Hill
Mounted Legion
Green Spring Station
Baltimore and Ohio
Richard
Cumberland
Indiana Zouave
Hays
Indian Mound
Kelly's I Land
Virginia Bank
Jay
Indiana
Merley
Maryland
Turner ‘Asty
Legion
William ‘Turner
Mana
Banks
Potomac
Lincoln
Flowing Springs
Col
Boteler's Mill
Pontley
Bolivar Heights
Macaulay
William LII
England
Gayety
Virginia Cavaliers
United States
Ireland
New York
New York Express and Post
Brotherhood
Ameria
O'Mahony
Great Britain
Roberts
Senate Party
Father Matthews
John Mitchell
Brooklyn
Cooper Institute
J. J. Roger
George Francis Train
Union Squire
Arma
Iris
Washingston
Washington
Frederick Bruce
Central Council
America
Liverpool Times
G. Grey
Grey
Valley of Virginia
Staunton
Valley Railroad
United Stas
Richmond Enquirer and Sentinel
H. M Smith
Senonel
Wm. D. Coleman
The
Enquirer
Fred, Douglass
George T. Yowning
Senate
Sprague
Rhode Island
Rochester
N. Y
Andrews
Washington Territory
Harrisonburg
U.S
Secretary of the Treasury
Grant
Sherman
Doolittle
South
Lexington
Maximilien
Raphael Semmes
Alabama
The Girls and Muse of Wives in 1860s Letters
A fragment of a period piece humorously laments life for women and brides, sketches social expectations around marriage and power, then shifts to a rapid collage of postwar notices. Reports cover politics, railroads, slave emancipation attitudes, and local court actions with names like Johnson, Grant, and Lee appearing amid varied local news.
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John J. Palmer
Charlottesville
E. C. Randolph
C. M. Wilcox
Mexico
Fredericksburg
Virginia Senate
James Walker
Pulaski
Stonewall Brigade
J. H. Dunn
Ibington
Congress of the
Congress
Merrett
Texas
Richmond
Geo. W. Getty
L. L. Stevenson
M. G. Harman
Weitzel
Gen. Getty
Paris
Louis Napoleon
Irland
London
Asia
Chicago Republican
Lakes
Chicago
Jones’s Woods
New York Times
Jones's Woods
O’mahony
McClosky
Connelly
B. Doran Killian Ger
B. F. Mullen
Geo. Francis Train
New York News
Longshoremen of
Brooklyn Longshoremen No
Papa
Megres
Great Falls of the Potomac
Washington City
Johnson
Frank Cheatham
Miss Robertson
Nashville
Lee
Jacksonville
Florida
Presbyterian
Luray
Page County
Doreman
E. ©. Bunker
Morgantown
Uardy
Pendleton
Grant and Mineral